Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Olympic Global Partner in the field of wireless communication equipment, celebrates the end of the olympic adventure with its champions, having reached an important beneficial goal. On occasion of the Sochi 2014 Championships, Samsung launched its project "Ola Azzurra" to support sport activities in Italian schools and make all sport enthusiasts - and not just them...

Eight medals and two firsts: 58 finalists out of 110 participants - the highest number ever (it  was 44 in Lillehammer in spite of the 22 medals in total), the lowest average age of all time (25.81) of the athletes who stood on the podium. And then twenty-second place in the medals for gold, but 12th in the number of medals and the IOC ranking, which takes into account placements from 1st...

    CROSS COUNTRY Start Athletes M/W Event Venue Results 08:00 11:00 Roland Clara David Hofer Francesco De Fabiani M 50 Km. mass start TL Laura Center 11.16.25. BOBSLEIGH Start Athletes M/W Event Venue Results 10:30 13:30 Simone Bertazzo Francesco Costa Simone Fontana Samuele Romanini M Run...

The Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, phoned CONI's President, Giovanni Malagò, this morning and congratulated him on the Italian team's performance in Sochi and offered his own words of encouragement for the final races of the Olympic Winter Games. During the call, Malagò handed the phone to the short track multi-medalist, Arianna Fontana, whom the Premier praised for the...

    SNOWBOARD Start Athletes M/W Event Venue Results 06:15 09:15 Corinna BoccaciniNadya Ochner W Parallel Slalom qualification Rosa Khutor Extreme 8. (Q) 22. SNOWBOARD Start Athletes M/W Event Venue Results 06:42 09:42 Aaron March Cristoph MickMeinahrd ErlacherRoland Fischnaller M Parallel Slalom...

The CONI President, Giovanni Malagò, has set the date of Sunday, February 23rd at 16:00 for the final press conference to review Italy's achievements in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The meeting will also be attended by the General Secretary of the National Olympic Committee, Roberto Fabbricini, and the Head of Italy's Mission in Sochi, Carlo Mornati. It will take place at Casa Italia in...

  ALPINE SKIING Start Athletes M/W Event Venue Results 13:45 16:45 Chiara CostazzaFederica Brignone W Slalom 1^ manche Rosa Khutor Alpine 25. 22. BIATHLON Start Athletes M/W Event Venue Results 15:30 18:30 Nicole Gontier Karin Oberhofer Michela Ponza Dorothea Wierer W Relay 4 x 6...

The Olympic Committee was informed by the IOC that the bobsleigh athlete William Frullani, has tested positive for dymetylpentylamine in a test carried out at the Olympic Village on February 18.  The athlete asked for a second test to be carried out, which was done this afternoon and was confirmed positive, and this has determined his exclusion from the Italian delegation.  The...

A bronze masterpiece, shining with brilliance enters the history books. The eighth medal for Italy in Sochi carries all the weight of the regal face and movements of Carolina Kostner. From the Ave Maria by Schubert to Ravel's Bolero, from a short wild programme to an authoritative freeness, the sad slide of Vancouver 2010 is consigned to the archives, buried under the applause of the...

Giorgio Di Centa is out of the games . A nagging hernia has forced the Olympic champion to return to Italy which means he will miss the 50 k Cross Country Ski on Sunday. Despite the treatments he has received in the last few days, Di Centa has had to surrender to the obvious impossibility of him competing. The Italian will be returning to Italy tomorrow morning and will be visited by the staff...